GDP Q2 2007 Downward Revisions

"Is Japan Heading for a Recession?" Claus asks us in his last post, and the answer looking at the latest set of GDP revisions may well be yes.Japan’s economy shrank more sharply than expected in the second quarter, and revised growth domestic product data released today show an annualised contraction of 1.2 per cent. In general we had been expecting a downward revision following evidence last